First post so if this is in the wrong spot I apologize.
My Dad was a lurker/occasional poster here. He died very suddenly back in September at 53.
He and I were planning on putting a farm together with old two row Case stuff. He'd been collecting stuff just about as long as I've been alive (19 years). He amassed quite a pile of old Case hulks and we were in the process of building a shop in order to overhaul these scrapyard saves and send them to the field.
In addition to starting a farm, I got the desire to start a machine shop a few years ago so Dad and I started collecting old machine tools. Again, before long many machine tool boat anchors were at the farm.
We realized early on that the building we needed was going to cost several hundred thousand dollars. We wanted 40' eave heights with atleast two overhead cranes.
Well in order to building the building we needed at a greatly reduced cost, we decided to do it ourselves. Then we started collecting junk heavy equipment. Case excavator and 40 ton P&H truck crane to name a few.
About now, after years of felling like were pushing a chain, things started to come together and we were starting to build the 100x150 shop we'd planned. Then Dad dropped dead one weekend with no notice from an aortic dissection.
That's pretty much all the background info.
So now, I need a shop, and in a bad way. I can't build the building Dad and I were planning on doing by myself right now. So I'm taking some of the life insurance money and having a shop built.
I think a 40x80 is about as much as I can afford. My question is 16' walls are the minimum I need since the equipment is small, 930 tractor is the largest tractor and 960 is the largest combine. Eventually I'll build the shop Dad and I started so I have future expansion covered.
But how much benefit would I get by upping the wall height from 16' to 18'-20'? It adds a fair bit of cost, but would be very nice.
Sorry for the long windedness, but thanks for any and all info.
My Dad was a lurker/occasional poster here. He died very suddenly back in September at 53.
He and I were planning on putting a farm together with old two row Case stuff. He'd been collecting stuff just about as long as I've been alive (19 years). He amassed quite a pile of old Case hulks and we were in the process of building a shop in order to overhaul these scrapyard saves and send them to the field.
In addition to starting a farm, I got the desire to start a machine shop a few years ago so Dad and I started collecting old machine tools. Again, before long many machine tool boat anchors were at the farm.
We realized early on that the building we needed was going to cost several hundred thousand dollars. We wanted 40' eave heights with atleast two overhead cranes.
Well in order to building the building we needed at a greatly reduced cost, we decided to do it ourselves. Then we started collecting junk heavy equipment. Case excavator and 40 ton P&H truck crane to name a few.
About now, after years of felling like were pushing a chain, things started to come together and we were starting to build the 100x150 shop we'd planned. Then Dad dropped dead one weekend with no notice from an aortic dissection.
That's pretty much all the background info.
So now, I need a shop, and in a bad way. I can't build the building Dad and I were planning on doing by myself right now. So I'm taking some of the life insurance money and having a shop built.
I think a 40x80 is about as much as I can afford. My question is 16' walls are the minimum I need since the equipment is small, 930 tractor is the largest tractor and 960 is the largest combine. Eventually I'll build the shop Dad and I started so I have future expansion covered.
But how much benefit would I get by upping the wall height from 16' to 18'-20'? It adds a fair bit of cost, but would be very nice.
Sorry for the long windedness, but thanks for any and all info.